Guide Note
Scott Forstall is the current Senior Vice President of iPhone Software and Platform Experience with Apple. He leads a team which develops the iPhone's operating system, focusing on user interface issues and new applications.
Fast Facts
- Current Senior Vice President of iPhone Software and Platform Experience
- Assumed position: June 6, 20081
- Previous position: Vice President of Platform Experience
- Earned Bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 1991
- Earned Master's degree in Computer Science in 1992, also from Stanford
- Personally recruited his team of developers from within Apple
- Spoke at 2008's Worldwide Developer Conference, where the iPhone 3G was unveiled
Closed, But Open, Platform
Forstall has defended the closed-platform nature of software development for the iPhone. He contended that network security could be compromised in a completely open-platform, but maintained that the iPhone platform is essentially open, given the many applications already available for use.2
